Harrow



Aug; 29, 1933. E. w. IRUFFNER HARROW Filed April 21. 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Inventor filff a 7 /77 a r Aug. 29, 1933. E, U FNER 1,924,517

ARROW Filed April 21, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet, 2

Invenlor 60 a harrow which is reversible and which comsaid beam beingimmediately adjacent the arms prises a novel construction, combination and ar-, 7 and the'lever 6. Anotched segment lO'rises rangement of parts through the medium of from the intermediate beam 9 adjacentthelewhich the harrows teeth may be caused to be ver 6 and isengageable by a latch means 11 sharpened when the harrow is in use. operatively mounted on the lever. for releasably 6 Other objects of the invention are to provide securing said lever in adjusted position. e a harrow of the character described which will .In use, eitherjend of theharrow section may I be simple in construction, strong, durable, efconstitute the forward end as said ends are of ficient and reliable in use and which may be duplicate construttion. Through the mediumof v 15 manufactured at low cost. r L the elements 6, 7 and 8, the tooth bars 4 may be 0 i All of the foregoing and still further objects rocked to incline the teeth 5 in either direction, and advantages of the invention will become ap according to which endof. the .harrowi'sbeing parent from a study of'the following specificaused as'the forwardend. In this way, theteeth tion, taken in connection withthe accompanymay beikept sharpened and will be caused. to ing drawings wherein like characters of referwear down evenly. j

.30 be seen that the embodiment of the invention What is claimed is:,

Patented Aug-29,1933 V 1,924,517

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1,924,517 t t nARRow I I g EdwardW.,Ruifner, Mason, Ill., assignorjof one- I half to George I. 'Danks, Edgewood, Ill.

Application April 21, 1932. Serial No. 606,698 1 Claim." (01. 55 -103) The present invention relates to agricultural are connected jto the hand lever B for simul implements or machines in general and more ,taneous'actuation thereby. particularly to new and usefulimprovements in. The reference numeral 9 designates a comharrows and has for one of its important objects Daratively short intermediate longitudinal beam 5 to provide, in a manner as hereinafter set forth, through which the tooth bars 4 rotatably extend,v

ence designate corresponding parts throughout It is believed that the many advantages of'a' the several'views, and wherein:-' t i harrow constructedin accordance'with the prest Figure 1 isa view'in top plan of a harrow secent inventionwill be readily understood, andaltion constructed in accordance with the present thoughthe preferred embodiment of the inveninvention. f e [tion is as illustrated and described, it is to be unso i Figure 2 is a 'view in front elevation of the derstood that changes in the details of construcharrow section. tion and in, the combination and arrangement Figure 3 is a view in side elevation thereof.- of parts maybe resorted to which willfall within Referring now to the drawings in detail, it will the scope of the invention-asclaimed. t v v 85 which has been illustrated comprises a" pair Of- A-han'ow'comp'rising spaced, parallel, longitu- 1 sp c d. parallel, l ng tudinally extendin beams dinal'outerbeams. having openings in their end 1 hav n p n n 2 in h ir nd p r ion to portions for connecting a hitch thereto, a comthat the hitch (not shown) may be selectively paratively short beam mounted intermediate r engaged with either end of said beams 1. Beth outer beams, staggered tooth bars journaled 9 r v tween. the. beams 1 are provided the integral, for, rocking ovem nt in the beams, teeth l v ly v r y disp ed ub anti lly mounted in the tooth bars, a hand lever fixed onl p d ties 3, t e ee nds o the ss of an intermediate bar, and rising therefrom,'arms Said b aces be S cured n a y Su ta fixedion the other tooth bars and rising theree 40 her, as by We d n t o beams A best from, a'bar pivotally, connected to the arms and Seen i Figure 1 of h drawings, t integrally to the lever for connecting the tooth bars to- OOImected ap DOItiOIIS O the r c i gether for-movement in' unison-a. notch- 'segt I jun tio wi h a t d fin a su sta t ment mounted on the intermediate beam, alatch t p d p on the lever operatively .engageable with the. I 45 Journaled for rocking movement transversesegment for securinglthe lever in adjusted jpoy in thfibeams 1 a t e t e d tooth bars sition, and integral, relatively revers'ely disposed, 4 av a e therein the depending tee substantially V-shaped braces extending between" 5. Fixed to the intermediate tooth bar land the m y rising therefrom is a hand lever B. Arms '7 are t t t i so fixed to the other tooth bars 4. "The arms 7 J 1 EDWARD UF are connected tothe hand lever 6 for actuation i thereby through the medium of a bar 8 which is pivotally connected to a lower portion of said lever and to the upper end portions of the arms. I a I a 55 It will thus be seen that on of the tooth bars 7 Q i 9 

